húanaib

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈuːa̯.nəβʲ/
    • (Blasse) [ˈuːa̯.nɪβʲ]
    • (Griffith) [ˈuːa̯.nɨβʲ]

Article

húanaib

  1. from/of/by the (dative plural)

Quotations

  • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 32b6
    hú⟨a⟩naib aitreb­thidib Acrisión­daib: a­ mmuntar sidi ad·rothreb­-si lee, it hé con·rót­gatar in­ cathraig
    by the Acrisian inhabi­tants: her household whom she had with her, it is they who built the city
    (literally, “…whom she possessed…”)